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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 2h

a group of men in suits and ties are sitting at a table in a courtroom .

ALT: a group of men in suits and ties are sitting at a table in a courtroom .

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 3h

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14h

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 6h

But what if this leads to prosecuting Bush & Cheney for Iraq…🤔🫠

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 8h

Look, we need to see what Mr. Corpus did before deciding whether to suspend him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 8h

The Republican Party supports and encourages Nazis.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Discount Goebbels: Don't call us fascist.

Also Discount Goebbels: Can I introduce you to my buddy who thinks the Nazis were the good guys?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Reup: How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

www.emptywheel.net

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 13h

Dishonesty is all the Republican Party has to offer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 14h

“Pro-life” #RepublicanGoals apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14h

“Stripped for Parts”: Secretive Hedge Fund Accused of Plundering U.S. Newspapers

“Stripped for Parts”: Film Explores How Hedge Fund Plundered U.S. Newspapers

The new documentary Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink looks at how hedge funds have gutted newsrooms across the country. The hedge fund strategy of “distressed asset investing” invo...

www.democracynow.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 14h

There is nothing ‘conservative’ about White Nationalist extremism.

Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

look I am not his audience and know very little about Bad Bunny but an extremely cursory google search tells me that he is in fact one of the most popular entertainers in the world today

this statement only works if by "broader audience" you mean "conservative white people"

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 15h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 16h

The Republican Party supports and encourages child sex traffickers.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for an eighth day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 1d

10/8/2025- The Roberts Court www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 1d

A game show called, "Did I Vote For This?"
The host says to the contestants, "Once again, this is _exactly_ what you voted for."

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 1d

Now do gun fetishism.🫠

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

The habeas petition for Byron Rovidio Marin (the guy held w/o charge in a hospital for 37 days after ICE broke his leg) has been unsealed.

@davidjbier.bsky.social @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

48. On August 27, 2025, CBP arrested Petitioner in Carson, California.
During his arrest, Petitioner sustained severe injuries to his leg and CBP transported
him to UCLA-Harbor Medical Center in Carson, California where he was
hospitalized as a “custody” of ICE. Petitioner remains in the custody of ICE at
UCLA-Harbor Medical Center with private contractor guards posted inside his
patient room at all times and controlling and limiting access to Petitioner by
medical personnel, attorneys, and family members.
49. ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings or charged him
with being in violation of immigration law. Upon information and belief, no
warrant for Petitioner’s arrest has been issued.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Padilla: Do you believe government officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not?

Bondi: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump.

Padilla: I asked a simple yes or no question

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 1d

They all need more of the state-approved opinion.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff gets Bondi so flustered that she starts blurting things out while he details what a farce this "oversight" hearing has been and the Republican members' lack of interest in doing their jobs

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi is an utter failure. youtu.be/wmh4nGMEYZE

WATCH: Sen. Schiff questions Attorney General Pam Bondi on Justice Department in Trump's 2nd term

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 1d

#RepublicanGoals

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Lower population growth as the president presses ahead with mass deportations will knock between 0.5 and one percentage points off America’s GDP growth between mid-2025 and mid-2026, according to S&P Global Ratings.”

@telegraphnews.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 1d

Dishonesty is all the Republican Party has to offer.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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